Tuesday is kick-off for CeBIT, the world's foremost tradeshow for the digital industry in Hannover, Germany, and with it high-class talks in the CeBIT Open Source forum. All talks will be visible on a live-stream in the internet.

Top-quality lectures and keynote speeches are the hallmarks of this extremely popular forum, March 2-6. The Open Source Forum will serve as the lively hub of the exhibition in hall 2, which in turn features a diverse range of open source companies and independent projects.

Among the speakers on stage will be Klaus Knopper, who will be "Introducing Knoppix 6.3", Jim Zemlin, executive directore of the Linux Foundation who will talk about "All Things Linux". FSFE president Karsten Gerloff, will give a talk about "Opening up the market for Free Software: The battle for interoperability", the German open-source-professor Dirk Riehle of the university Erlangen-Nuremberg will give insight in "Open Source – A New Software Developer Career", the Mozilla project is present with Chris Hofmann and many, many more.

On Thursday you can witness the Linux New Media Awards, where projects, people and organizations will be rewarded for outstanding innovations and contributions to Linux, open source and free software in six categories.

Linux New Media AG is organizing an integrated presentation series for the Open Source Forum at the CeBIT 2010 running March 2 through 6 in Hanover, Germany. Users from organizations and agencies as well as developers from the open source community are invited to apply for a free presentation slot up until January 7, 2010.

The speakers' program at CeBIT Open Source in hall2 in Hannover, Germany, from March 1 through 5, 2011 is finalized, with a gaggle of Linux and open source celebrities. The talks will be available as live online video stream.

In March (3-8, 2009), CeBIT will once again be opening its gates in Hannover, Germany. The world's largest and most renowned trade fair for the world of IT and telecommunications will be featuring Open Source topics in hall 6. The CeBIT Open Source Forum 2009 will be the venue of daily lectures on the use of Linux and free software - and you can watch them online, live and for free!